warfare

...how impossible itis to really make a choice, when the best choice of all is an option youcouldn__ even imagine.

Only when we pray for one another, we will have peace.

Waiting for a battle was the hardest part. Unless you got a dagger in your gut during the battle. Then that was hardest. Or you got through just fine and saw your men dead around you. Then that was.

When your enemy is tough make your actions rough, you will meet at the same point.

It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

Never mind of what your enemy thinks of you, relax and think a head of him.

Legal action is but warfare disguised.

Victory in war is usually the result of compromising what you want and behaving like those you despise." - Tapio

Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to the nest?

Mechanized warfare still left room for human qualities to play an important part in the issue. __utomatic warfare_ cancels them out, except in a passive form. Archidamus is at last being justified. Courage, skill and patriotism become shrinking assets. The most virile nation might not be able to withstand another, inferior to it in all natural qualities, if the latter had some decisively superior technical appliance. (...)The advent of __utomatic warfare_ should make plain the absurdity of warfare as a means of deciding nations_ claims to superiority. It blows away romantic vapourings about the heroic virtues of war, utilized by aggressive and ambitious leaders to generate a military spirit among their people. They can no longer claim that war is any test of a people__ fitness, or even of its national strength. Science has undermined the foundations of nationalism, at the very time when the spirit of nationalism is most rampant.

My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.

All right. They__e on our left. They__e on our right. They__e in front of us, they__e behind us. They can__ get away this time_.

The nations, of course, that are most at risk of a destructive digital attack are the ones with the greatest connectivity. Marcus Ranum, one of the early innovators of the computer firewall, called Stuxnet 'a stone thrown by people who live in a glass house'.

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another.

War is a soul-shattering experience for the innocent.

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

We maintain, on the contrary, that war is simply a continuation of political intercourse, with the addition of other means. We deliberately use the phrase __ith the addition of other means_ because we also want to make it clear that war in itself does not suspend political intercourse or change it into something entirely different. In essentials that intercourse continues, irrespective of the means it employs.